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          | Cremation and Body Burning in Five Dynasties China | Christina  Han | 1 | 
        
          | On  the Military Career of Qin Han, a Senior Eunuch in the Early Northern Song  Dynasty | Koon-wan  Ho | 23 | 
        
          | Re-establishing  the Military Power: A Study of the Office of Grand Marshal of Hebei | Leung  Wai Kei | 59 | 
        
          | A  Re-examination of the Great Tianyuan Yansheng Temple in the Capital of the Yuan  Dynasty | Hsu Cheng-hung | 83 | 
        
          | The Great Money Divergence: European and Chinese Coinage before the Age of Steam | Niv Horesh | 103 | 
        
          | The Images of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom as Shown in the Publications in France, Germany,  and Italy during the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century | Wong Ching Him Felix | 139 | 
        
          | From  the Eight-legged Essay to the Critical Discourse on Western Learning: An  Investigation of the Metropolitan Examinations in 1903 and 1904 | Li Lin | 175 | 
        
          | From  Surrender to Departure: The Story of Guan Yu and Its Relevance to the Dating  and Evolution of the Composition of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Part I) | Li Ting Yuen | 201 | 
        
          | Methodology,  Perspective, and Cultural Context: Lun Zaishengyuan and Its Significance in the  History of Chinese Literary Criticism | Zhang Sijing | 231 | 
        
          | A  Study of Kuang Zhouyi’s Notion of “Learning Ci from beyond the Studying of Ci”  and His Discussion of the Relationship between a Poet and His Poetic  Composition | Tsui Wai | 251 | 
        
          | Characteristics  and Implications of the Military Thoughts in Mohism | Ho Wei-husan | 273 | 
        
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          | After Long Years: Reading The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature | Paul W. Kroll | 295 | 
        
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          | Book Reviews |  |  | 
        
          | The Oil Prince’s Legacy: Rockefeller Philanthropy in China. By Mary Brown Bullock. | Yung-chen Chiang | 317 | 
        
          | The Dynamics of Masters Literature: Early Chinese Thought from Confucius to Han  Feizi. By Wiebke Denecke. | Christoph Harbsmeier | 321 | 
        
          | Global Perspectives on Global History: Theories and Approaches in a Connected World.  By Dominic Sachsenmaier. | Pamela Kyle Crossley | 326 | 
        
          | A Northern Alternative: Xue Xuan (1389–1464) and the Hedong School. By Khee Heong  Koh. | Lu Miaw-fen | 332 | 
        
          | Remote Homeland, Recovered Borderland: Manchus, Manchoukuo, and Manchuria, 1907–1985. By  Shao Dan. | Edward Rhoads | 335 | 
        
          | Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. Edited by Peter Lorge. | Patricia Ebrey | 338 | 
        
          | Merchants of Canton and Macao: Politics and Strategies in Eighteenth-Century Chinese  Trade. By Paul A. Van Dyke, | Chen Kuo-tung | 340 |